I have had a couple of reports of members receiving PMs from new members they don't know, often in Russian (Cyrillic) and with a link in the message.

These are spam posts DO NOT CLICK THE LINKS!

We have a safeguard on this site that stops new members from starting a thread on their first post without it being approved by a moderator. However, it seems that these spammers can quite happily post PMs to members without approval.

Hopefully we will come up with a countermeasure, but in the meantime, if you get a PM and you are unsure, do not click any links and either notify a moderator, or delete it if you are certain it is spam.

Tonyblack (moderator)

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.” – Blaise Pascal

Watch out for Feneswealse and pymnempiste as well as they both refer to a notorious spam and fake goods site called longchamp in their signatures. This site appears to offer leather goods at very good prices but it is actually a counterfeit product and malware site based in China. You get shoddy goods and a nasty computer virus at the same time

It may not be malicious - these things tend to be about selling you things rather than downloading viruses. As Dug says: run any virus protection and anti-malware software you might have. And if you ever get anything that causes you doubt, be safe and don't click any links.

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.” – Blaise Pascal